Rigid hand-grip for cars



' M. A. KIRSCHMANN.

RIGID HAND GRIP FOR CARS.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 11. 1920.

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RIGID HAND-GRIP FOR CARS.

Application filed June 11,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARY A. KinsoH- MANN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Rigid Hand-Grips for Cars, of which the following is a specification.

Objects of the present invention are to simplify, lighten and strengthen the construction and improve the operation of such devices.

The invention will be claimed at the end hereof but will be first described in connection with the accompanying drawings forming part hereof and which illustrate principally in central section a device embody ing features of the invention.

The single figure of the drawing shows the device as a whole in side view with parts broken away or in section.

Referring to the drawings, the interconnected rings 1 and 2, have arranged between them sleeve 3, and the ring 1, extends above the ring 2, and is supported and stayed by the braces L, and the ring 2, through the intervention of the cushion 5, sustains the pull and most of the thrust exerted upon the device in its use, because the head 6, of the shank 7, of the hand grasp 8, is seated on the cushion 5. and encircled by the ring 1. The spring 9, interposed between the cap 10, and the head of the shank 7, serves to return the hand grasp to the position shown as soon as the latter is released. The cushion 11, serves Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 24, 1920.

1920. Serial No. 388,124.

to receive the hand grasp or grip 8. The opening in the hand grasp or grip 8, is generally rectangular and so accommodates the hands of two persons at the same time. The fitting 12, receives and supports the upper end of the casing 3, which is a tube of light or thin metal since it is not subjected to much stress, the latter being principally taken by the interconnected rings 1 and 2, and referred to the stays 4;, when the device is in use with the hand grip 8, drawn with head 6, in abutment upon the cushion 5, of the ring 2.

I claim:

1. An extensible rigid hand grip for cars comprising in combination opposed interconnected inner and outer rings, a tubular casing between the rings, stays applied to the outer ring for bracing both rings, and a spring retracted hand grip slidably arranged in the casing and provided with a head adapted to abut on the inner ring and be braced by said stays, substantially as described.

2., An extensible rigid hand grip for cars comprising in combination opposed interconnected inner and outer rings of which the latter extends above the former, a tubular casing between the rings, stays applied to the outer ring, and a spring returned hand grip having a head supported endwise by the inner ring and circumferentially by the outer ring, substantially as described.

MARY A. KIRSCHMANN 

